25th
March
2007
This is completely silly and gimmicky, and I totally want to do it.
Dinner in the Sky
Dinner in the Sky is an outift in Belgium that will strap you and 21 of your nearest & dearest into four-point restraint, revolving seats around a Benihana-ish dinner table, and use a crane to hoist you 150 feet up into the air to enjoy a meal. I’m not sure if they make you wear those dippy chef hats. And I’m also not sure what you’re supposed to do if you feel a need to visit the restroom mid-meal. An eight-hour rental will run you somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 euros. [via Cynical-C]
posted in Food |
23rd
March
2007
I’m bacon!
Last year for Halloween, I was bacon. If you’ve never been bacon before, I highly recommend it. Everybody, you see, loves bacon. It is, as my friend Monica says, the Candy of the Meats.
People do not want to be quiet about their love for bacon, they want to declare it, often loudly. Even the most shy people at least muttered “bacon!” under their breath as they passed me. I have never been so popular, so adored (and strangely, so hit-on) in my life.
I won the costume contest, which was novel for me — I’ve never had a costume that would have even been considered a contender before. It might have been influenced by my handing out bacon to everyone at the party. But I couldn’t be the very embodiment of temptation that is bacon without following through with some actual meaty goodness — as it was, I had more than a few people trying to bite me.
It was a beautiful experience, and one that everyone should be able to join in, so here are the instructions on how you, too, can be bacon for a day:
- Buy two sheets of foam from a foam supply store. The sheets I got were 2′ x 6′. You’ll also need 2 or 3 colors of spray paint, some big plastic bags, stick pins, a hot glue gun and glue, and a few feet of heavy-duty 2″ velcro.
- Lie face-down on one of the foam pieces, letting your feet hang off the edge, and trace the edges of your face on the foam with a big black marker. If you’re like me, you’ll wind up with black marker on your face, so be sure to wash that off quickly.
- Cut out the face hole.
- Lie down on the foam again, this time to mark where the top of your shoulders will be when your face is lined up with the hole. Mark the edges of the foam with a black marker.
- Glue the two pieces of foam together at the top, above the shoulder lines, leaving enough room for your head. I used a combination of spray-mount glue and a hot glue gun. I’m a little embarassed to own a hot glue gun, but making this costume makes me feel a little better about it.
- Use the black marker to trace an uneven, bacony outline on the foam.
- Cut away the edges of the foam. Bevel the edges of the foam, to give it a slightly rounded, and less-obviously-foam appearance. Try to not freak out at the sight of all the little squirrelly bits of foam that are all over your living room.
- Leaving room for an arm hole, glue one side of the bacon together. I used my hot glue gun, with slightly less shame this time. Be generous with the glue, this is where your costume is going to get strained.
- On the other side, apply some nice, wide velcro to the opening (again, leaving room for an arm hole). I used industrial strength, 2″ wide velcro, and it worked great. It’s self-stick, and it adheres to the foam just fine.
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posted in Crafts, Food |
23rd
March
2007
I have a secret love for lolcats, even though I never use them myself. I Can Has Cheezburger has a ton of them “tagged for your convenience”. This Legend of Zelda kittah is so cute it makes me want to poke my eyes out. [via Kotaku]
Here’s another one, because I am weak and cannot resist.
posted in Video Games |
22nd
March
2007
This one’s just for the girls in the audience. The ones that aren’t squeamish.
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posted in Tech |
22nd
March
2007
The romantic musings of a seven-year-old. [via Darth Daddy]
posted in Miscellaneous |
21st
March
2007
I don’t know who did this, but it’s nearly as good as the the fucking short version:
[via Defamer]
posted in Video Games |
21st
March
2007
Chimps make crappy Lose Weight Exercise buddies. Or perhaps, if Tiki-Kate is right, they make evil Lose Weight Exercise buddies. Or maybe the dog’s just lazy. [via Spectre Collie]
posted in Television |
21st
March
2007
According to Scary Ideas, these coasters were placed in popular bars throughout Mumbai by the Mumbai Traffic Police, as a reminder of the dangers of driving drunk.
Bloody coasters from Mumbai
The coasters were printed using a special red dye that only appears when the coaster gets wet — so when a drink’s condensation runs down the glass to the coaster, it creates a ring of blood. Yowzers!
This is a pretty good, if unsettling, use — I wonder if we’ll see this special dye used again in a more jovial form at Halloween. [via BoingBoing]
posted in Design, Tech |
20th
March
2007
Hanford just picked up this little plastic puppy:
My new puppy
So very wee!
It’s really little — you can see me holding it in my fingers here — and I’ve got teeny fingers. He found it in one of those coin-operated kiddie machines, and got it for two quarters. This thing is just insanely detailed. I’ve got it blown way up in that picture above so you can see all the little features. The eyes and nose are painted on, and they’re just perfect. The fur, the mouth, the ears — every detail is meticulously defined. Fifty cents goes a long way in the puppy-crafting trade, apparently.
posted in Design |
20th
March
2007
Doris Salcedo installation,
photo by Sergio Clavijo
I’m fascinated by this art installation by Columbian artist Doris Salcedo. In 2003, Salcedo stacked 1,600 wooden chairs in an empty space between two buildings in Istanbul, for the International Istanbul Biennale.
Where did she get so many chairs? How did she get them in there? How did she get them out? What was done with them when the installation was removed? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN???
No really, what does it all mean? I can’t find any information on what her inspiration or message was for this. The website linked above notes “Salcedo often takes specific historical events as her point of departure,” so I get the idea I’m missing part of the story. I don’t need to know what it means to think it’s very cool, though. [via design*sponge]
posted in Art |
